"Expelling the Han soldiers, Guang me Dayue!"

At the beginning of April, due to the influx of a large number of Annan people, Chen Jikuo in Shannan issued a letter under the support of Jian Ding, regarding the Ming army as a thief who had invaded the territory of Annam, and sent 40,000 troops to Shenglong to seek revenge.

At the same time, a large number of powerful squires in Annan in the area recovered by the Ming army began to rebel, and for a time the entire Annan wolf smoke was everywhere, and the wolf smoke that had finally faded away burned again.

On the fifth day of the fourth month, Mu Chun, the Duke of Qianguo, issued a document to publicize Chen Jikuo's impersonation of the Chen Dynasty's clan, and divided his troops into multiple ways to quell the rebellion.

Upon learning the news, the Hu father and son, who were entrenched in Xinghua, also sent troops to prepare to attack the Ming army with Chen Jikuo, but in front of them was Zhang Fu, who had 5,000 troops in the east of Shanxi Town.

On the sixth day of the fourth month, Mu Chun, Fu Rang and other generals came into contact with Chen Ji's troops and horses, and Chen's soldiers and horses were defeated at the first touch, losing fifteen cities in less than three days.

At the same time, Hu Yuancheng led 30,000 troops to fight fiercely with Zhang Fu in Shanxi Town, Hu Yuancheng drove the elephant soldiers to fight, but Zhang Fu dispersed the elephant herd with artillery shotguns, and routed the front army with the approaching three sections of the arquebus.

After only an hour of fighting, the Vietnamese army broke and fled, and Zhang Fuqin led 200 cavalry to chase and cut for 30 miles, beheading tens of thousands of prisoners.

On the tenth day of the first month of April, Qu Neng led Qu Yu, Qu Tao, Zhang Chun, Meng Ying and other generals and more than 1,000 foot soldiers to raid Shannan Town, and Jian Ding commanded 20,000 soldiers to go out of the city to meet the enemy.

Between the battles, dozens of generals such as Qu Neng, Meng Ying, and Zhang Chun rode horses and broke through the formation, attacking left and right.

Jian Ding commanded the troops and horses to garrison, but Qu Neng led his troops to break in, wielding a double hammer and prancing horses to and fro, and the second son, Meng Ying, Zhang Chun and other generals killed hundreds of people, and the Yue soldiers fled.

On April 15, the Vietnamese army under Chen Jikuo's headquarters was completely annihilated in Shannan, and Mu Chun, the Duke of Qianguo, supported Chen Yao, the 67-year-old elder of the only clan of the Chen family, as the lord of Annam, and asked for the establishment of a capital department to help the Chen Dynasty resist the future invasion of the Hu clan.

"What is the origin of this Chen Yao?"

At the end of April, when the news of Annan arrived in Nanjing, Zhu Gaoxu was busy helping Zhu Di's northern expedition to mobilize people, but he didn't expect Mu Chun to calm Chen Jikuo and support Chen Yao, the elder of the Chen clan.

Zhu Gaoxu asked Yizha to lose Ha, and Yizha also said when he heard the words: "Back to Your Highness, this Chen Yao is the only clan of the Annan Chen clan at the moment, but his head is not bright, and he has no heirs. ”

"In other words, the Chen family is no heir?" Zhu Gaoxu opened his mouth in surprise, but he shook his head: "Many people fled south to Nanyang and failed to catch them. ”

"It's a pity......

Zhu Gaoxu sighed, and when he saw this, he said tentatively:

"Your Highness, this Qianguo public Chen Yao is the lord of Annan, this seems to be a bit overstepping."

Mu Chunli Chen Yao was not instructed by Zhu Gaoxu, so it was really wrong for Mu Chun to do this.

However, for Zhu Gaoxu, there is no harm in doing this, after all, Chen Yao is still sixty-seven years old without children, and it is difficult to say how many years he can live.

Governing Annam in his name can greatly appease the people of Annam and put an end to national rebellion.

After a few years of Chen Yao's death, the imperial court will be able to occupy a high position in the general righteousness if Chen has no later to take over Annan.

"Set up the Jiaozhi to command the envoys, and govern twenty-two guards."

Zhu Gaoxu and Zhu pen criticized red, and handed Mu Chun's recital to Yishiha, and at the same time did not forget to remind:

"Before the end of the year, first check the number of people in Jiaozhi, and then prepare for land measurement in the next year."

"In addition, Mu Sheng was promoted to the Marquis of Xiping, Qu Neng was the Marquis of Jianchang, He Fu was the Marquis of Ningyuan, and Gu became the Marquis of Zhenyuan."

"In addition, Ling Fu Rang inherited the Duke of Yingguo and sat in Annan, Zhang Chun served as the commander of Jiaozhi, and Zhang Fu was the commander of Guangxi."

"Lin Su is the commander of Shanxi Xingdu, and Meng Ying is the commander of Jiaozhi."

In a few words, the Mu family had one more marquis, Qu Neng and the three were promoted from earls to marquises, Fu Rang inherited the title of Duke of Yingguo, and the rest of Zhang Chun and others were promoted.

Of course, the most noteworthy of these is the commander of Shanxi Province served by Lin Su.

Shanxi Xingdu commanded the envoys, and was mainly responsible for most areas of Datong, Monan and Hetao.

For the Ming Dynasty, this place is basically the same pure imported land as Daning and Liaodong, without any output.

In the early years, Zhu Di discussed with Zhu Gaoxu that he wanted to abolish this place and move the Dongsheng and other guards of the Hetao to Shanxi, because there was no output in this place, and there was no object for defense.

Since the great victory in fishing, the Hetao has been invaded very few times, and the local garrison is grazing sheep every day, and can only rely on hundreds of thousands of stone of grain transferred from abroad every year to survive.

Historically, Zhu Di moved here because input and income were not output, but the fundamental reason was that the population of Hebei was empty, and the population here could only be moved into Hebei to enrich the population of Hebei.

Now, because of the existence of Zhu Gaoxu, the Battle of Jingyan not only ended two years ahead of schedule, but the war in Hebei did not spread too widely, so although the population of Beiping is small, at least it is not in a hurry to be full.

For Zhu Gaoxu, the Hetao must become a Han land, and it must be built until the output is greater than the input.

When Liaodong can be self-sufficient, it is the time when Zhu Gaoxu invests in Modong and Hetao, so it is definitely a good arrangement to transfer Lin Su, who is good at tuntian, to the local area.

"Wouldn't it be bad to kill one Annan and promote so many titles?"

Listening to the list that Zhu Gaoxu said, Yizha couldn't help but feel a little worried.

"If you have merit, you will be rewarded, and their merit is not as good as the merit of destroying the country, but it is almost the same."

"Mu Chun has no reward, so there is only Mu Sheng."

Zhu Gaoxu didn't have so many ideas, but he just adhered to the idea of rewarding merit and punishing the reward.

With the policy of equal rank of military attaché examination, he will not worry about the burden of meritorious rewards.

If this group of military attachés can really produce talents from generation to generation and continue to pass on the title, then Zhu Gaoxu doesn't have to worry about Wenchen overpowering the military attaché.

Thinking so, he couldn't help but think of the number of students enrolled at the National Defense University this year.

"How many students will be enrolled in the National Defense University and Taixue respectively this year?"

"There are 4,627 people for national defense, and 28 people for Taixue."

During the inquiry of the master and servant, Zhu Gaoxu mentioned the letter written by Zhu Di to himself, and talked about its contents: "The problem of rations in Shandong must be eliminated, and the officials in Shandong who go on business trips also enjoy the accommodation and meals of the post station like officials. ”

"The slave takes the command." also lost his response, and Zhu Gaoxu also followed closely and continued to command:

"I read the immigration documents of Annam, and in four months, more than 30,000 people have migrated, and although the population of Guangdong and Fujian provinces is willing to migrate, there are still 50,000 people, but it is still not enough to fill Annam."

"Order the household department and the official department to let Zhejiang, Jiangxi, Nanzhili and other places migrate, and those who are willing to migrate will enjoy 50 acres of land per household, and the government will pay for the rations within three years."

One new policy after another was conveyed to the world in the hands of Zhu Gaoxu, and he could only follow it, and only properly reminded Zhu Gaochu when he took too big a step.

With the transmission of one policy after another, the sparseness on the table was also solved by Zhu Gaoxu one after another.

The sunset was slanting in the west, and after Zhu Gaoxu had finished handling most of the recitals, it was already dusk outside the window.

"Your Highness, Tea ......"

Stretching his waist, Zhu Gaoxu took a cup of ginseng tea from Yishiha's hand and sighed: "My body has actually fallen to the time to drink ginseng tea." ”

After that, he glanced up at Yishaha, looked at Yishaha's face that was much older than ten years ago, and couldn't help sighing: "You are also a lot older, and you have been helping me do things for so long, and you are very tired to think about it." ”

"Where is Your Highness, if there is no Your Highness, the slave maid is still just an ordinary eunuch on duty." Yisha smiled and shook his head.

If Zhu Gaoxu's words were said from the mouths of others, he would definitely think a lot, but when Zhu Gaoxu said it, he only felt that he cared about himself.

"I remember you have brothers, right?" Zhu Gaoxu asked.

"Yes, the slave has two older brothers." Yisha is not a stupid person, knowing that Zhu Gaoxu wants to reward himself, so he asks about his family.

"Your two elder brothers, do you have any extra heirs to pass on to you?"

Zhu Gaoxu was really distressed and lost Ha, and wanted to favor him, but he was also a eunuch, so he asked about it.

"My brother also said it, but the slave thought about it and forgot it."

Yisha smiled bitterly and shook his head: "After all, it's not your own, and it's the same if you pass over." ”

"You ......" Zhu Gaoxu didn't know what to say, and finally could only sigh: "You are like this, but I don't know how to reward you." ”

"It is the best gift to be able to do things next to His Highness and make a name for himself in history." also lost Habi's respectful gesture, which made Zhu Gaoxu's nose sour.

If he is greedy for money after years of court battles, as in history, he can still use money to satisfy him.

But now Yishiha was taken outside the customs by himself, and his ideals have changed from gold and silver treasures to being famous in history, which makes him not know how to compensate him.

"You are a Jurchen in Haixi, and the court can appease the Guanwai and also have your merits, I want people to build a stone monument of merit for you in the land of the six cities, carve your stone statue, and let future generations look up to you."

Seeing that he wanted to leave a name in history, Zhu Gaoxu also satisfied him, after all, with his merits, he can definitely set up a stone monument full of merits.

"Slave and maid, thank Your Highness Longen!"

He bowed deeply.

He knew that Zhu Gaochu didn't like to kneel, so this was his greatest gratitude to Zhu Gaoxu.

"Thank you, and I thank you."

Zhu Gaoxu got up and helped him up, and he also took the opportunity to mention a person.

"Your Highness, the former Huai'an merchant Jia Yangbin, do you remember?"

"Yang Bin?" A fat face appeared in Zhu Gaoxu's mind, so he bowed his head and said, "Naturally remember." ”

"Although the Yang family did not support Yang Bin, Yang Bin still supported the imperial court, I remember that I gave him a positive five-grade loose rank."

"What? He's not satisfied? ”

Zhu Gaochu never treated anyone who helped him do things, even if Yang Bin's position was not stable at the critical moment, but after all, he solved the problem of grain and grass for leading his army south, so Zhu Gaochu gave him a hereditary downgrade of the Zhengwupinsan Rank, which was enough to ensure his wealth for six generations.

"Although Yang Bin is now an official and businessman, his heirs are not allowed to participate in the imperial examination, so he came to ask for slaves and maids."

Yizha said what Yang Bin wanted from him, but Zhu Gaoxu frowned after hearing it: "I remember that the heirs of Shangjia can participate in the imperial examination, and his family is afraid that he offended people in his early years. ”

"Back to Your Highness." Yisha said embarrassedly: "The Yang family had a relationship with Zhang Thief in his early years, so he was not allowed to participate in the imperial examination. ”

"Lift the ban." Hearing this, Zhu Gaoxu opened his mouth without thinking, and Yizha thanked Zhu Gaoxu for Yang Bin.

Seeing that the government affairs were almost handled, Zhu Gaoxu also stretched: "Okay, let's go back to the front bedroom to rest, and by the way, let's see what Yan'er is doing." ”

Walking out of the Chunhe Hall with Yishiha, Zhu Gaoxu looked up and actually saw layers of burning clouds.

"Your Highness, this is an auspicious elephant."

Yizha boasted, but Zhu Gaoxu smiled heartily: "It's just a miracle of nature, if you say auspicious elephants, it is better to say that our army in Annam, and the upcoming northern expedition are auspicious elephants of the Ming Dynasty." ”

He walked towards the former dormitory, and at the same time in the north, Zhu Di and Empress Xu also arrived in Beijing.

"It's finally here!"

Before the end of sunset, Zhu Di finally saw the city of Beijing close at hand.

Three years have passed since he went south, and although he has seen the construction drawings of Beijing City, he has not come close to observe them.

Now looking at it from Lixu, the scale of Beijing City is probably even larger than on the drawings.

Kuaixiang, a famous craftsman from Jiangdong who was responsible for building Beijing, saw the emperor like this, and hurriedly introduced him and the empress:

"The capital was originally set to be forty-five miles long, but it was later modified by the prince and divided into the capital, the imperial city, and the palace city."

"The capital is fifty miles long, the imperial city is twenty miles long, the palace city is five miles long, the height and thickness of the city wall are different, about four zhang and five zhang, the bottom thickness is seven zhang, and the top thickness is six zhang."

"The city was built by skilled craftsmen from all over the world, and the cement allocated by the imperial court was used."

"However, after the trial of the ministers, the cement is not as strong as the Sanhe soil, so the repair of the Beijing city wall is mainly made of Sanhe soil, and the road houses and cement are mainly made of sand and gravel concrete."

"In addition, in the drawings drawn by His Royal Highness, the imperial court is required to set aside the vacant land in the south of the capital, and in the capital, 70,000 small courtyards with two entrances and exits are built, and 8,000 mansions are used for rewards and cover an area of more than one acre."

"Your Highness said that after these houses are built, they can be sold directly to the people at a low price, or they can be directly rewarded to meritorious heroes."

"As for the southern part of the capital, there is a land of ze, which can be used as farmland after the construction of water conservancy in the future, or when the capital is crowded in the future, an outer city can be built here."

The scale of Beijing City mentioned by Kuaixiang is not as large as Nanjing, but it is much larger than the city of Beijing during the Yongle period in history, enough to accommodate 500,000 people to live in it.

For such a majestic capital, Zhu Di was naturally full of joy, so he asked Kuaixiang: "How is the construction of the palace city?" Is it habitable? ”

"The imperial city was the first to be built, and most of the palace city was also built." Kuaixiang explained: "The minister heard that His Majesty is about to go north, so he has accelerated the progress of the Qianqing Palace and the Wuying Palace, and now he can move in at any time. ”

"Okay, good ......" Zhu Di stroked his beard happily, and smiled at Queen Xu behind him: "Sister, how is it?" ”

Empress Xu smiled and nodded, but her mind was not on this, but she stepped forward and asked Kuai Xiang: "How happened to the military households and people in the city before?" ”

"Back to His Royal Highness, according to the arrangement of the prince, it was assigned to a four-point courtyard." Kuaixiang replied honestly, which made Queen Xu breathe a sigh of relief.

What she was most worried about was that the people who had already lived and worked in Bei'an would be disturbed because of the construction of Beijing, but now that she has the answer, she is in a much better mood.

"The civil and military ministers are all lacking, do they have a place to live?"

Empress Xu continued to ask, which made Xie Jin, Yang Shiqi and other scholars who followed behind, as well as the officials of the Sixth Department, warm their hearts.

"It's all arranged."

Kuaixiang replied, and Zhu Di greeted Queen Xu when he saw this: "Sister, you are also tired, let's go in and rest early, and go tomorrow to see how the people in the capital are doing." ”

"Okay." Empress Xu smiled, and when Zhu Di saw that she agreed, he helped her into the car, and then entered the city of Beijing with hundreds of civil and military officials.

In order to save costs and facilitate future maintenance, the roads in the capital are plastered cement roads, which are very smooth, and there are fine lines on the roads to prevent slipping.

The cement road is naturally not as good as the bluestone road in Nanjing, but it is easy to clean, neat and clean.

Entering the capital, the civil and military officials saw many scattered craftsmen and the people of Beiping living in the capital.

Many of them saw the emperor's car and waved from afar.

Seeing this, Zhu Di simply opened the window, revealing himself and Queen Xu.

"Your Highness! You're back! ”

"I'm back, but I'm Your Majesty now!"

"Your Highness......"

"Your Majesty!"

"That's right! It's Your Majesty! ”

At this moment, Zhu Di has a feeling of returning to his hometown, tirelessly correcting the former Beiping people, and seeing many familiar faces.

Zhu Di greeted warmly, and Queen Xu sat in the back, looking at him with a peaceful smile.

Many people in the crowd saw the Queen Xu, who often appeared on the street, and called her one after another.

Seeing that his sister-in-law was mentioned, Zhu Di also hurriedly gave up his position and pushed his sister-in-law to the window, showing the people of Beiping his own sister-in-law who has now become the queen.

The expression on his face seemed to be even happier than when he became emperor.

Facing the cheers, the original two-quarter-hour journey was delayed for half an hour, but even so, Zhu Di was very happy.

After entering the Donghua Gate, the ministers were arranged to live to rest, and Zhu Di and Empress Xu went directly to the Qianqing Palace Gate by car.

Zhu Di took the lead in getting out of the car, and after helping Empress Xu get out of the car, he walked into the gate of the Qianqing Palace in the lanterns of the eunuchs on the left and right, and saw the Qianqing Palace that had been lit with candles in the distance.

The husband and wife walked along the stone road and looked around at the Qianqing Palace in Beijing, which was no different from the Qianqing Palace in Nanjing.

Maybe they were tired, or maybe it was too dark, in short, they didn't move around, but washed up in the service of the female officials who stayed behind in the Beiping Palace, and lay on the dragon bed.

Empress Xu was sitting, Zhu Di pillowed his head on Empress Xu's lap, and Empress Xu peacefully combed Zhu Di's forehead hair with her hands.

They are no longer young, but the feeling at this time makes them all feel that they have returned to the time when they were in Beiping.

Zhu Di was twenty years old at the beginning, and Empress Xu was eighteen years old.

They are childhood sweethearts and have a very strong relationship, which is different from many princes and princesses.

Feeling his sister-in-law's hand combing on his forehead, Zhu Di looked up at Empress Xu with a peaceful face, and sighed: "To be honest, sister, I don't feel like an emperor until now." ”

"I don't feel like a queen now." Empress Xu replied with a chuckle, combing Zhu Di's hair more carefully.

"I don't have that much ambition, I always feel that I can fight for the imperial court in Beiping, take the second child to fight in Mobei, and then every time I come back, I can see my sister, you are the greatest happiness."

Zhu Di stretched out his hand and took Queen Xu's hand, figuring out the roughness on it.

This roughness is certainly not worth mentioning compared to the hands of ordinary people, but as Empress Xu, this roughness is part of what she has paid for Zhu Di.

"This emperor, since I have become a good person, if I go down in the future......"

Zhu Di said, but Queen Xu stretched out her finger to block his mouth: "Don't talk about this kind of unlucky thing, Your Majesty is strong and can live for a long time." ”

"It doesn't matter if I live for a long time, I want to see you."

Zhu Di stretched out his other hand, and while taking away Empress Xu's hand, he kneaded Empress Xu's hand with his own hands.

"My hands are a little rough, sister, don't dislike me."

Zhu Di smiled happily, and Queen Xu also chuckled, but didn't say anything, and let Zhu Di knead his hands.

When Zhu Di's interest passed, Queen Xu continued to comb his hair, while Zhu Di kept looking at her intently.

"People are old and yellow, can't you see enough?"

"Can't get enough of it." Zhu Di didn't think twice: "In my eyes, you have always been the Xu sister who embroidered with my mother in the Qianqing Palace." ”

His gaze never moved away for a moment, and although Empress Xu did not show a thicker smile on her face, the look in her eyes could explain many things.

Zhu Di sat up, and Empress Xu looked at him quietly with a smile.

Looking at her, Zhu Di also noticed the sachet on her waist that never left her body at any time.

He picked up the sachet but found it heavier than the usual sachet and opened it to see a small bottle.

"What is this?" Zhu Di took out the thumb-sized bottle and asked, but Queen Xu didn't answer, so Zhu Di felt bored and stuffed it back.

She lay back on Empress Xu's lap and reached out to touch Empress Xu's haggard face.

"I'll have to go to Quanningwei in five days, girl, do you have anything to say to me?"

"Don't rush too far in front of you when you're fighting." Empress Xu only explained this sentence, because in her opinion, Zhu Di only had this one shortcoming in the war.

It's just that when she stroked Zhu Di's hair, she didn't know what she thought of, and suddenly said to Zhu Di: "After this northern expedition, Your Majesty, you will also canonize a few concubines from the harem." ”

"I can't promise you this." Zhu Di shook his head, grabbed Queen Xu's hand, and said honestly:

"There is only one queen in my harem, and there is no concubine who competes for favor."

"Ming Taizong Record": "In April, Ji Kuo rebelled, led the army to attack the king's division and retreated, and the public of Qianguo heard that Ji Kuo was a slave of the Chen family. ”

"Southern Expedition": "At the beginning of April, it was rumored that Ji Kuo was a slave who pretended to be a member of the clan, and Ji Kuo was afraid that the rumors would leak out, so he sent troops to attack the king's division. When Guogong heard about this, he sent Jian Changbo to lead more than 10,000 troops to Shannan. When Jian Ding heard that Wang Shizhi was coming, he did not repent, led his troops out of the city to fight, and met Jian Changbo in the battle, and died. In this battle, the Vietnamese army suffered tens of thousands of casualties, and Ji Kuan killed himself in the city. ”

(End of chapter)